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Identifier: stnicholasserial351dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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galled;in such event even the strongest elephant is laidby for weeks. Half a ton is a good load for con-tinuous marching, though an elephant may beara much heavier burden for short distances. These draft elephants will pass through a coun-try, heavily laden, such as could not be traversedeven by mules or donkeys. Now and then, how-ever, they come to grief. On one occasion near serious fall, however, but his load had beenwrecked. The broad girth had broken, and tents,cooking utensils, medicines, and fifteen or twentylive ducks were scattered over the hillside. In the teak forests and also in Upper Burmavery young elephants are ridden like ponies.These calves are extremely useful for very diffi-cult country; they give no trouble, and are riddenwith a soft pad and stirrups. They will do theirfifty or sixty miles a day, guided only by a slighttap on either side of the head, a little pressure ofthe knee, or even a word whispered in their ear But it is in the heart of the teak forests that
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A PAIR OF WORKERS STACKING SQUARED LOGS. Mogok, the city of ruby mines, I saw a caravanof laden elephants traversing a jungle paththrough bamboo and coarse grass fourteen feethigh. The track in some cases was embanked,but heavy rains had undermined the soil; andjust as the biggest elephant was passing, thehigh embankment gave way under his weight,and with a scream of terror the huge animal fellsideways, rolled over and over no less than fivetimes, and at last, to the immense relief of hismahout, stopped short on the brink of a deepravine. Of course it was thought the elephantwas killed. He was none the worse for his one sees the working elephant at his best. Asfast as the trees are cut down and trimmed, teamsof elephants with harness and chains are attachedto the huge logs, which are promptly draggedthrough forest paths to the nearest stream. Herethe logs await the rainy season, when little rivu-lets become roaring torrents, and float down thetimber into the great Irrawaddy itself. Yo

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